Why won't this work.

[Geoff Canyon]

To describe the other aspect of this, you can only use a variable
containing a long id as a reference to the underlying object if you
reference properties of the object. Hence why

put the long id of fld "test" into tID
set the left of tID to 47
set the vis of tID to true
set the dontwrap of tiD to false
set the htmlText of tID to "something"
set the text of tID to "something else"

all work, but

put "some text" into tID

will just change the contents of the variable. I have vague memories of
some exceptions to this, but it was a long time ago, so maybe I'm wrong, or
LC has addressed the issues.

gc

On Thu, Oct 29, 2015 at 8:26 PM, Scott Rossi <scott at tactilemedia.com> wrote:

> Try: set the text of tlongid to "my email"
>
> Otherwise, you're just putting a value into your tlongid variable, the
> same way you did with the long id of the field.
>
> Regards,
>
> Scott Rossi
> Creative Director
> Tactile Media, UX/UI Design
>
> > On Oct 29, 2015, at 5:02 PM, Earthednet-wp <prothero at earthednet.org>
> wrote:
> >
> > Folks,
> >
> > I tried
> >     Put the long id of field "email" into tlongid
> >     Put "my email" into tlongid
> >
> > This does not work.
> >
> > It works if I copy the long id and paste the second line in the message
> box.
> > Seems this should work.
> >
> > Bill
> >
> > William Prothero
> > http://es.earthednet.org
> >
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